Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 83.
War Film, action film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
In 1940, American-built North American Harvard training aircraft are flown to the border with Canada, where they are towed across the frontier for use by Britain. (The procedure is necessary to avoid violating the Neutrality Acts, as the U…
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War Film, drama film
The film tells the story of a Polish Resistance group, which discovers details of the manufacture of the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde in 1943. Liaising with service chiefs in London, the group manage to pass on enough information…
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war film
During the Korean War, United States Air Force Captain John Merrill (John Ireland) is the pilot of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber. Merrill is based in Okinawa and is ordered to destroy a Yalu River bridge in Korea. The mission is conti…
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Animalhorror, Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Timothy Frischer (Heath Lamberts) is a hippie artist/painter who has been married for four years to Lily (Blythe Danner) a fellow hippie. Their marriage is shaky, so they agree to spend the summer together as a trial period at an isolated …
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drama film, historical film, war film
Europe's most powerful leaders desperately plot their strategies, attempting to determine the next moves of both their allies and enemies. The private meetings, arguments, anguish and personal battles will change the course of history. The…
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Event Documentary, Political Documentary, documentary film
Historical drama, drama film, war film
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a beautiful young laundress, Elizabeth Rousset, shares a stage coach ride from Rouen with a group of condescending nobles and businessmen and their wives, a political firebrand nam…
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War Film, war film
Wing Commander Tim Mason commands 188 Squadron RAF, a squadron of Avro Lancasters based in England. He is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning that he has flown nearly 90 missions over Germany. Having twice volunteered …
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war film
Set in British India in 1857, at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. A British officer, Captain Claybourne (Rock Hudson), is cashiered from his regiment over a charge of disobeying orders, but finds that his duty to his men is far from over…
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Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, drama film
Before Winter Comes takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II. British Major Giles Burnside is assigned to a refugee camp in occupied Austria; his mission is to send the groups of displaced civilians to either the Russian zone…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
American Clay Douglas travels to England to discover the truth behind his brother's death during the Second World War.
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war film
During World War II, a team of Australian soldiers from Z Special Unit, including Ivan Lyon and Robert Page, successfully lead an expedition to destroy ships in Singapore harbour, Operation Jaywick. An attempt to duplicate this success, Op…
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Conspiracy theory film, documentary film, war film
Drama, War Film, drama film
Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, horror film, science fiction film
While taking their boat out for some water-skiing, a quartet of teens named Reg, Skip, Julie, and Pam accidentally discover an island run by a mad scientist named Doctor Myra who, backed by foreign agents from "the East", intends to turn e…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Loosely based on actual events during World War II, the film depicts real-life German Captain Bernhard Rogge commanding the navy raider Atlantis, which from May 1940 to November 1941 sank 22 Allied merchant ships. The story alternates betw…
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Documentation, documentary film
war film
In the French infantry on the Macedonian front during the First World War, Conan, an officer of the elite Chasseurs Alpins, is the charismatic leader of a special squad, many from military prisons, who raid enemy lines at night taking no p…
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Military Film, war film
In 1918 at the end of World War I a German commander would be piloting U-103 sighting the HMPT Olympic where the sub intended to torpedo it. Still, it missed and the Olympic would attempt to ram it with the submarine diving in an attempt t…
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drama film, war film
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan (Aherne) and English aristocrat Helen Drummond (Oberon) meet and fall in love. Riordan is pursued, however, by British army officer Captain Preston (Niven). Th…
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drama film, thriller film, war film
War is over. Ivan came home. But even years later, he continues to play it, as a result of which his wife left him.
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drama film, war film
In 1923 in England, General Hetherton is instructing his grandson Jim to shoot a rifle. Jim's dog runs in the way and Jim accidentally kills him. The incident affects him deeply and he becomes a pacifist.
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Drama
Germany is on the verge of losing World War II and powerful Nazis and sympathizers from various countries head for South America in a German submarine leaving from Oslo. The film's narrator is a French doctor who has been kidnapped to tend…
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Satire On War, comedy film
Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather, a well-meaning but accident-prone naval officer with a passion for rockets, is posted where he can (so the navy hopes) cause no further damage. He is given command of a mothballed Royal Navy vessel, HMS Ber…
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